This week the sun has arrived in full force and with it butterflies, ladybirds and bees a plenty.

‘The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things’   Plato

‘Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it’    David Suzuki

‘Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.’   Joseph Cornell

It has been another gloriously muddy week in the forest with many of the children resembling the muddy beast from Room On A Broom, ‘It dripped and it squelched, as it strode from the ditch’, the perfect costume for World Book Day!!

This week our Little Forest Folk have been fascinated by the changes that are taking place across the Palace Gardens, swathes of colours are starting to appear as the flowers are beginning to wake up, bright yellow daffodils, violet crocuses and delicate little snowdrops adorn the forest floor.